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A Stroll in the Garden

Winter Oak Leaf

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Winter Lilac Seed Pods
Winter Red Twig Dogwood
Winter Columbia River
Winter

“It is a way to keep cider sweet without boiling. Let the frost come to freeze them first, solid as stones, and then the rain or a warm winter day to thaw them, and they will seem to have borrowed a flavor from heaven through the medium of the air in which they hang.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples

Turkeys

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. -Willa Cather

Turkeys

If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw something out of the other person in return—if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve. — Dale Carnegie

Turkey in Crabapple Tree
Winter
Winter
Winter
Stellars Jay

Stay safe. Stay healthy.

See the world around you!

A Stroll in the Garden – Macro Practice

The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. -Isaiah 58:11

Caterpillar

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Peony

Veronica Waterperry

For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations. -Isaiah 61:11

Black Cohosh

Burning Bush

Chives

You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon. -Song of Songs 4:15

Ants/Caterpillar

*For all of you caterpillar lovers out there…this caterpillar was alive when I found the ants dragging it away.  I rescued it after I took the photo.

Veronica Waterperry/Bumblebee

Coral Bells

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God stands forever.  -Isaiah 40:8

Burning Bush

Geranium

Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. -Luke 12:27

Tulip

Chives

Flower

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  -Ecclesiastes 3:11

Red Twig Dogwood

Columbine/Caterpillar

Marguerite Daisy

I am the Vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me, and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing. -John 15:5

Peony